Bennington Early Childhood Center

Regulation 3.7.2.2: The licensee shall ensure that evacuation drills are conducted at least once a month, and children and staff are evacuated in under three (3) minutes. Licensees of a CBCCPP located within a public or independent school building may count a lock-down drill performed while the CBCCPP is in operation in place of a monthly evacuation drill with the CBCCPP children and staff and at least three (3) of the monthly drills conducted within 365 days shall be evacuation drills.

“During the period from November 2023 through October 2024, evacuation drills were conducted and documented during seven (7) months (November and December 2023, February, May, June September and October 2024) and not conducted or documented during five (5) months (January, March, April, July, and August 2024). Corrective Action: Create a plan to ensure that all classrooms, either independently or as part of the larger program, complete an evacuation drill monthly. Each drill must take less than 3 minutes, and at least one annually must be conducted during rest time. When this plan is complete please send it to sarah.crosier@vermont.gov.”

Correction date in the state record: Dec 9, 2024

Regulation 3.4.7.3: Within six (6) months of the initial date of employment; staff and auxiliary staff left alone with children and/or counted in staff/child ratio as specified in the rule 6.2.1.8 of these regulations, and the program director shall maintain an up-to-date BFIS Quality and Credential Account. Documentation, verification of qualifications, and all annual professional development activities as specified in the rules in sections 7.3 and 7.4 of these regulations shall be submitted to Northern Lights at CCV to be verified and maintained in BFIS.

“Documentation including Protecting Vermont's Children, Vermont Orientation Training, First Aid/CPR, and qualification data such as diplomas and transcripts, is available and has not yet been sent to Northern Lights for entry into BFIS Quality and Credential accounts. Corrective Action: Immediately send all documents to Northern Lights at professional.development@ccv.edu for entry into BFIS accounts. Copy sarah.crosier@vermont.gov on those emails. Develop a plan to ensure that future documentation will be sent in a way that maintains up to date BFIS accounts.”

Correction date in the state record: Feb 23, 2022

Regulation 3.4.6.1: The licensee shall maintain a record of the date of each evacuation drill as required in the rules in section 3.7.2 of these regulations that includes the number of children and staff evacuated, time taken to evacuate, and notation of the drill conducted while children were sleeping or resting. Evacuation records shall be kept for two (2) years. When the CBCCPP counts lock-down drills as allowed in the rules in section 3.7.2 of these regulations, the licensee shall maintain a record of the date of each lock-down drill, the number of CBCCPP children and staff who participated, and note that the drill performed was a lock-down drill.

“Evacuation drills were conducted in September and October 2021, and January 2022. No drills were recorded for November or December 2021. Corrective Action: Complete two evacuation drills in February and March 2022. Ensure that at least one evacuation drill is completed each month after that, and is properly documented. Send a copy of the documentation for February and March to sarah.crosier@vermont.gov when the second March drill is completed.”

Correction date in the state record: Mar 25, 2022

Regulation 5.1.2: General Health Examinations: Within forty-five (45) days of enrollment, the licensee shall obtain documentation of the child's age appropriate well care exam from the parent. Documentation shall include information regarding any health conditions and medications that may impact the care of the child.

“Documentation of a General Health Examination was not present in three (3) of ten (10) files reviewed. Corrective Action: Ensure that each enrolled child has documentation of a General Health Examination in their file. Notify sarah.crosier@vermont.gov when all files have this documentation.”

Correction date in the state record: Feb 23, 2022

Regulation 3.4.6.1: The licensee shall maintain a record of the date of each evacuation drill as required in the rules in section 3.7.2 of these regulations that includes the number of children and staff evacuated, time taken to evacuate, and notation of the drill conducted while children were sleeping or resting. Evacuation records shall be kept for two (2) years.

“During the previous six months, drills were practiced in September (x3), October (x2), December and February. No drills were conducted in November or January. Corrective Action: Establish a plan to ensure that an evacuation drill is conducted every month. Please email this plan to sarah.crosier@vermont.gov once it is established.”

Correction date in the state record: Feb 28, 2020

Regulation 3.4.7.3: Within six (6) months of the initial date of employment, staff working with children and the program director shall maintain an up- to-date BFIS Quality and Credential Account. Documentation, verification of qualifications and all annual professional development activities as specified in the rules in sections 7.3 and 7.4 of these regulations shall be submitted to NLCDC to be verified and maintained in BFIS.

“Documentation including certificates of completion of Orientation training, Protecting Vermont's Children, First Aid and CPR and also education documents were in staff files but had not yet been submitted to Northern Lights for entry in to Bright Futures accounts. Corrective Action: Develop a plan to ensure that all documentation of training and education is sent to Northern Lights in a time frame that maintains up to date BFIS accounts.”

Correction date in the state record: Feb 28, 2020